The doll factory

<p><b>A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession Paula Hawkins, author of<i> The Girl on the Train</i></b><br><b><i><br>The Doll Factory</i>, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal,</b><b> is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession.</b><br><br> London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet.

For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. <br><br> When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint.

Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.<br><br> But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .</p>